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Supabase generateLink Doesn't Send Email: My Pastor Invites Never Arrived
Supabase invite link not working? auth.admin.generateLink returns the link and sends nothing. My SaaS threw it away, so new pastors never got access.
My Bottleneck Was the Offer, Not SEO: A Two-Sided Marketplace Cold Start
I spent months on SEO for FastPass. The real problem was a two-sided marketplace cold start on the creator side. What my own build and database showed, and what I changed.
1,791 Pages, Zero Indexed
A canonical mistake collapsed my tool site from ~1,800 indexed pages to 2. The code was fine. The real fix was not more pages, it was authority.
I Emailed 312 Users Who Ignored My App. Their Replies Shipped Three Fixes in 48 Hours.
Dashboards told me retention was bad. Three user replies told me why: a deterministic filter, a cutout model eating clothes, and a quiz field nobody ever saved.
My Sitemap Advertised 11 Pages. The Site Had 56.
My prerendered SPA shipped around 50 indexable pages, but the sitemap listed only 11. The prerender step and the sitemap had quietly drifted into two lists.
The Failed Payments My Database Invented
OutfitMaker's subscriptions table was full of `incomplete` rows that looked exactly like broken checkouts losing me money. Stripe had never heard of any of them. The bug wasn't in my payment flow — it was in what I was counting, and it was pointing me at the wrong leak.
Blocking 7,500 Disposable Email Domains
The day after I finally got my conversion rate to be trustworthy, it lied to me again — not a bug this time, but a wave of throwaway-email signups inflating the top of the funnel. The fix was a blocklist, a memoized Set, and one word in a validator: on: :create.
SEO for Indie Hackers: What Actually Worked
Real data from 4 months of SEO effort on OutfitMaker. The strategies that moved the needle and the ones that wasted my time.
From Zero to First Paying Customer
First commit to first €7.99. The timeline, the numbers, what worked and what didn't on the path to revenue.
Building in Public While Still Learning
The tension between sharing your work and not feeling like an expert. How one Reddit post brought 40 users in 24 hours.